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In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-first Century
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Publication date
September 29, 2008
Pages
198
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781405130998
ISBN-10
1405130997
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$33.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of reading."
- Provides valuable insights into why and how we read
- Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary university and offers insights into the future
- Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys of committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university
- Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience
- Following his long term commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context
- Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus
Editions
Hardcover
from Blackwell Pub (September 29, 2008)
9781405130981 | details & prices | 198 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $99.95
About: Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R.
About: Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Blackwell Pub (September 29, 2008)
9781405130998 | details & prices | 198 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $33.95
About: Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R.
About: Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R.
Miscellaneous
from Blackwell Pub (February 16, 2009)
9781444304848 | details & prices | 216 pages | List price $94.95
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